Reports, Logs, and Monitoring
Reports
The Report page allows the teacher or administrator to look at course/site logs and user activity reports. Reports can be found in the administration block. Site reports are available to users who have been assigned administrative role (privileges).
In Moodle 1.8+ teachers have a Report icon in their administrative block in their course. This page will focus upon teacher report logs.
Teacher Opening Report Filter page
Course logs
Course logs show activity within the course. It allows tutors to see what resources are being used and when, or check that an individual student has viewed the resource they claim to have read.
Available Options:
- Course to Retrieve Logs from
- All users or a single User
- Day to Retrieve Logs from
- All Activities or a single activity
- All Actions or a single action
- Display the Logs on Page or Download to either Text, ODS, or Excel format
Example Report:
Live logs from the past hour
This link in the middle of the Report page (see above image), shows all the activity in the last hour, with a single click. For an administrator on the site homepage, it calls up all site activity. A teacher in a course, will see just the activity for that course in the last hour.
Note that these reports have active links. For example, this allows the teacher to click on the page a student was watching. Here is an example of a live log.
Sample Log
Full Activity Report
- Log in as a teacher or administrator
- Select a course to generate a report on
- Go to the “Administration” box on the left side of the page
- Select “Reports”
- If desired, use one or more of the pull down menus as a filter to narrow your report
- On the new screen, select “Activity report”. It will be approximately in the middle of the screen.
- You will have an activity report sorted by topic
Example of Activity Report
An activity report will show all activity in the course, sorted by topic. Each item will be shown with its type and name. 
Individual Activity Report
- Log in as a teacher or administrator
- Select a course to generate a report on
- Go to the “People” box on the left side of the page
- Select “Participants”
- Click the person’s name
- Select the “Activity Reports” tab
From here you can select an outline report (which looks similar to an activity report on all students), full report, grade report, or select today’s logs or all logs. Again, reports are sorted by topic. A detailed report on a person will show each item, organized by topic, with what that person has done involving that item. For example, a forum will be listed with how many posts to that forum a person has made.
Participation report
A participation report provides any easy way to monitor students’ participation.
An Example Report: 
The definition of View and Post for the selected Activity type will be given on screen. For example: Forum View: View Discussion, Search, Forum, Forums, Subscribers Forum Post: Add Discussion, Add Post, Delete Discussion, Delete Post, Move Discussion, Prune Post, Update Post
Users matching the Show (Student or Teacher) criteria will be listed in tabular format by Name/ID Number and whether (and how many times) they have completed the Action searched upon. e.g. (Yes (n) or No).
Bulk email
An extremely useful feature of the Participation Report is the ability to email students or teachers who have not completed a certain action in bulk.
Report options
Close up: 
Activity Module – Select the Activity type on which you wish to report (eg Chat, Forum, Quiz etc). Note that only the Modules used in the course will be listed in this dropdown menu.
Look Back – Select the period on which you wish to report.
Show Only – Choose whether to run the report on Student or Teacher activity.
Show Actions – Choose whether to report on Activity Views, Posts or Both (All Actions).
Once you have entered values for the above parameters, choose Go.
A list of all of the occurrences of the selected Activity Module in this course will be generated. Choose the item on which you want to report and choose Go.